DRIFTER'S REVENGE - Book review

DRIFTER’S VENGEANCE

Max Brand

 

Originally published 1932, this edition 1974. A slightly off-beat melodrama with humour about the likeable character of Speedy, a drifter who becomes the deputy sheriff of lawless Sunday Slough.

Speedy lives up to his name and uses unarmed combat to good effect against the bad guys, in effect kung fu many years before the TV series popularised that martial art.

The usual tale about claim jumping, robbery and crooked lawmen, enlivened by the unique character, Speedy. Nobody proves a match for him.

A fast-paced yarn from a bygone era.